What does the total fertility rate (TFR) measure?
Correct answer A. The number of children born to the average woman during her reproductive years
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Which statement about children in a peasant society is NOT true?
Correct answer C. Children place more economic demands on a peasant family than on an urban family
Which of the following is NOT an example of a global public good?
Correct answer C. The drilling of oil in the Arctic
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Economists in India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Mexico argue that foodgrain output would not have kept pace with population growth over recent decades without what?
Correct answer D. High-yielding seed varieties used with fertilisers, pesticides and irrigation
During the 2000s and early 2010s, where did Pakistan rank among the world’s countries by population?
Correct answer A. 6th
What share of Pakistan’s total population lives in Punjab?
Correct answer B. 55.5%
What share of Pakistan’s total population lives in KPK?
Correct answer C. 13.4%
Which part of Pakistan has the fastest population growth?
Correct answer C. Islamabad
What share of Pakistan’s total population is aged between 15 and 60?
Correct answer A. 50%
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What share of the world’s population does Pakistan account for, according to the figure this question uses?
Correct answer A. 2.3%
What was Pakistan’s crude death rate in 1998?
Correct answer D. 8.6 per 1000
How many people in Pakistan’s total potential labour force are unemployed, according to the figure this question uses?
Correct answer A. 2.42 million
Which province of Pakistan has the second-highest population density?
Correct answer B. Sindh
What is the population density of Punjab?
Correct answer D. 353 per sq. km
What is the population density of KPK?
Correct answer D. 235 per sq. km
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Which part of Pakistan has the highest population density?
Correct answer C. Islamabad
What is the population density of FATA per square kilometre?
Correct answer D. 115
Which sector employs the largest part of Pakistan’s labour force?
Correct answer B. Agriculture
In mid-2007, what proportion of Pakistan’s workforce was engaged in agriculture?
Correct answer D. 45%
What proportion of Pakistan’s population speaks Punjabi?
Correct answer A. 48%